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In the wake of the Brexit decision and the election of Donald Trump as US President, he wrote in the Scientific American alongside other prominent scientists how New Zealand - a "deeply civilised small nation" - should try to lure top scientists from the UK and US eager to escape their countries and make itself the "Athens of the modern world".

His latest book, Science in the Soul, advocates the power of science, and the importance of the scientific way of thinking in a world where the term "post-truth" has been growing ever more prominent.